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dpa, Published on 25/12/2015
» Search and rescue teams found 40 more bodies after a ferry sank off Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Saturday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 63, a local official said.
dpa, Published on 24/12/2015
» JAKARTA -- Three more bodies were recovered Thursday after a ferry sank off Indonesia's Sulawesi island at the weekend, bringing the confirmed death toll to 26, with more than 50 still missing, an official said.
dpa, Published on 23/12/2015
» JAKARTA -- Four more bodies have been found after a ferry sank off Indonesia's Sulawesi island at the weekend, bringing the confirmed death toll to seven, an official said Wednesday.
dpa, Published on 19/10/2015
» Residents of flooded farming villages in the Philippines were trapped on their rooftops on Monday and animals floated down fast-rising rivers, as the death toll from Typhoon Koppu climbed to 16.
dpa, Published on 05/08/2015
» Two passenger trains derailed after being hit by flash floods on a bridge in central India, killing at least 27 people in the latest deadly accident on the nation's crumbling rail network.
dpa, Published on 17/05/2015
» KUALA LUMPUR - Twenty-five football fans were arrested Sunday in northern Malaysian for rioting in the aftermath of a tense semi-final match between a local team and a visiting Singaporean team, a police official said.
dpa, Published on 13/01/2015
» HANOI — A captive Asiatic black bear in Vietnam was electrocuted to death to force it to release the arm of a three-year-old boy, news reports said Tuesday.
dpa, Published on 23/12/2014
» MANILA – Philippine President Benigno Aquino Tuesday signed a 2.6-trillion-peso ($59 billion) national budget for 2015, which he said further limits opportunities for corruption.
dpa, Published on 11/12/2014
» An explosion on a tanker off Malaysia killed two crew members, an official said Thursday.
dpa, Published on 09/12/2014
» MANILA – Smiling and carrying bags of relief goods, residents of flood-prone areas in the Philippine capital began returning to their homes after staying in an evacuation centre overnight.